Floor polishing material



Feb. 13, 1934. A. E. MOORHEAD I 1,947,135

FLOOR POLISHING fiATERIAL Filed Aug. 4, 1930 Ira waf /7 A/berf' E. Moor/wad A fforn c-y Patented Feb. 13 1934 UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE Moorhead Development 00., Inc

Oakland,

Calif., a corporation of Nevada Application August 4, 1930. Serial No. 473,090

10 Claims.

This invention relates to floor polishing and more particularly to a specific polishing material arranged to be operated by a polishing device,

P such as disclosed in my copending application to a fioor polisher, Serial Number 357,180, filed April 22, 1929.

The polishing of hardwood floors or linoleum has always entailed a series of steps such as cleaning, waxing, and polishing and necessitated the expenditure of considerable time and energy to produce a smooth hard finish of the wax on the fioor or linoleum. In my above mentioned copending application, I disclosed a specific polishing device comprising a motor driven brush about which a wax impregnated material was secured in order to alleviate the conventional manual energy necessary in fioor polishing.

This invention consists in the improvement of the wax impregnated material of my aforemen tioned copending application. I accomplish this by providing a material impregnated in such a manner so as to combine the waxing and polishing operations. A good grade of wax cannot be readily spread, like butter, and requires the use of a cotton or fibrous medium, in order to spread the wax on the flooring.

I have found that if a fibrous medium such as flannel, cheesecloth, or absorbent paper is impregnated with predetermined amounts of wax in spaced intervals, I produce a material that is capable of waxing and polishing in one operation. It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a material that will reduce the conventional floor polishing operations to a minimum.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a pretreated material of indefinite length which is readily shipped in the form of a roll and which is capable of having predetermined lengths of material cut therefrom in order to encircle a revolving brush.

Hardwood fioorings and linoleums look unlformly smooth and fiat to the naked eye. However, it is well-known that all fioorings have slight depressions 0r shallow portions throughout their surface, and the conventional waxing process just covered the raised portions or high spots with wax. It is therefore a further object of this invention to provide a material capable of uniformly applying a film of wax to all portions of a 9; flooring.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a material which may be readily used a number of times without smudging the polished surface of the flooring, and which is inexpensive to 5f manufacture.

My invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more easily apparent from a consideration of one embodiment of my invention. For this purpose I have shown a form in the drawing accompanying and forming part of the present specification. I shall now proceed to describe this form in detail, which illustrates the general principles of my invention; but it is to be understood that this detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of my invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side view of a polisher embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view of a roll of material embodying my invention;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modified form of the material shown in Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a further modification.

Referring to to the drawing, I disclose in Fig. 1 a circular element 11 mounted for rotation around a horizontal axis on the shaft 12. The elements may be in the form of interchangeable buffing rolls, either solid or built up of fabric, paper or the like, and from which material can be unwound to expose new material for use. However, in the present instance, these elements are shown as soft flexible brushes. The brushes are covered by a housing 15 having a guide 13 in its forward end through which the material 17 may be threaded. The material is anchored to the brushes by a hook l4 and is wound thereon by imparting rotation to the brushes. The brushes and the mechanism for wrapping the material therein is fully described in my above mentioned application and forms no part of this application.

In the preferred form of my invention shown in Fig. 3 the material 17 is impregnated with little thin streams of hot wax, or other polishing material, one half inch apart and waving back and forth, creating in and out curves 18 of wax impregnated material. By means of these waving lines of wax, the floor under the brush comes 100 in contact with the wax several times in one revolution and thus insures a complete waxing of the floor under the brush. The unimpregnated portions 19 act as the means to rub in and polish the wax covered floor. If the lines of wax were straight, throughout the length of the fibrous medium, the floor under the brush could not be fully covered without changing the location of the brush. Since the waving lines of wax occupy only a very limited space on the surface of the 9 :hook l4, and then start the brushes.

fibrous medium, the waxing application and the rubbing and polishing is performed in one operation. This impregnated fabric is made of indefinite length and shipped in rolls as shown in Fig. 2. The material is perforated in spaced intervals in order to provide a means of removing a piece of fabric of definite size which will readily encompass the brushes 11.

In the form shown in Fig. 2, the material 17 is impregnated in spaced offset dots of wax 20 and havin intervening unimpregnated portions 21. The material is wound and sold in the form of a roll 22 and provided .with lines of perforations 23 for a purpose above set out. It is clearly apparent that this material, like the material shown in Fig. 3, will combine the waxing and polishing operations. Although I have disclosed circular impregnated portions 20, my invention is not to be limited thereto as any form or shape of the impregnated portion may be utilized with equal advantages. The essential idea of this invention being the provision of a polishing material having spaced impregnated and unimpregnated portions as and for the purpose specified.

In the form of my invention disclosed in Fig. 4, I provide a series of spaced folded impregnated portions 24, which may be retained in place in any desirable manner such as by stitching 25, and a series of unimpregnated portions 26. The material 17 is folded at or where the free ends would be when Wound on the brushes 11 for a purpose to be hereinafter described.

The provision of roll 22 with such impregnated material as described, with the appropriate lengths marked off as at 30, renders the use of my polishing cloth very convenient. It is merely necessary to cut olf the right length of material, pass it through the guide 13, fasten it across the As the brushes rotate, the material 27 Will be drawn in and wrapped around them. When the material gets soiled, it can not only be reversed, but that end which was engaged by the hooks can be substituted for the free end, and in this way, at least four changes can be had from each length of the material.

When the floor polishing medium is wrapped around the brushes, there is always the free loose end 27 of the material which is thrown away from the brush by the centrifugal force set up by the rotating brush, and this end comes in contact with the floor at each revolution of the brush with a vibrating, curling stroke, which strikes and pounds the wax in all the low spots and crevices in the floor. Thus the floor is waxed and dry polished by a whipping action. By using the material shown in Fig. 4, an intensified action of the whipping is procured.

I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a flexible fibrous floor treating material impregnated in spaced intervals with wax.

2. As an article of manufacture a flexible fibrous material impregnated with a floor treating medium in spaced sinuous lines, said floor treating medium being capable of imparting a layer to a floor surface.

3. As an article of manufacture a flexible fibrous material impregnated with a floor treating medium in parallelly spaced sinuous lines whereby a material is provided having a series of floor treating portions and a series of polishing portions, said floor treating medium being capable of imparting a layer to a floor surface.

4. As an article of manufacture a flexible fibrous material impregnated with a floor treating medium in spaced sinuous lines having the crests of one line lying in the corresponding hollows of the adjacent line whereby a material is provided which will cover the entire surface of a floor underneath the material with the floor treating medium when rubbed thereover, said floor treating medium being capable of imparting a layer to a floor surface.

5. As an article of manufacture a flexible fibrous material impregnated with wax in spaced sinuous lines having the crests of one line lying in the corresponding hollows of the adjacent line whereby a material is provided which will cover the entire surface of a fioor underneath the material with wax when rubbed thereover.

6. As an article of manufacture, a flexible fibrous material impregnated with a floor treating medium in spaced rows of dots, said floor I- treating medium being capable of imparting a layer to a floor surface, the dots in each row being spaced one from the other, and the dots in one row being offset from the dots in an adjacent row, whereby a material is provided having 2. 11

series of fioor treating portions and a series of polishing portions.

7. An an article of manufacture, a flexible fibrous material impregnated with wax in spaced rows of dots, the dots in each row being spaced from each other, and the dots in one row being offset from the dots in an adjacent row, whereby a material is provided having a series of floor treating portions and a series of polishing portions.

8. As an article of manufacture a flexible fibrous material impregnated with a floor treating medium in spaced intervals, the material at said impregnated portions being formed in a series of folds, whereby a material is provided having a series of floor treating portions adapted to treat all portions of a floor, and a series of polishing portions.

9. As an article of manufacture, a flexible 

